Stair Railing

The stairs up to the attic/master bedroom have been railed for months, but I realized I never posted pictures.

When we bought the place, the stairs up to the attic led to a hole in the floor, like this. No railings. Just a big drop.

Now they are railed in and safe!

The rails:

One day, we’ll get around to staining and painting it!

Henry’s bedroom

I thought it would be fun to look back at how far we’ve come. Here are the pictures I took before we bought the house (or right as we were closing) and a picture of the same angle of where we are at now. Here is Henry’s bedroom.
When we bought it:

And now:

Then:

Now:

Attic painted!

I really like painted wood floors. Stephen doesn’t. At least, he didn’t until he saw how good the upstairs floor looked when done! The house I stayed in as a child in the Amazon had high gloss painted floors, and so the look is nostaligic for me.

Paint hides anything. Even these rough stairs look good when painted. I would like to do a stair runner eventually.

A window week 5

This is gonna knock your socks off.

Isn’t it wonderful?

I knew it would be good, but not this good!

One more:

I mean, two:

Remember what it looked like before?

A window week 1

This week you get to see all the replacement windows, starting with the back bedroom.

Here’s a picture of the old ones:

And with the new:

It makes more sense

Remember we were having troubles deciding what to do with the stair mess? Drywall helps clear a few things up, yes?

I didn’t think drywall could make such a difference! It makes my heart skip.

Whoa. That’s a bedroom!

Where to start? Drywall is in.

We decided we like the chimney. We will clean the brick and leave it bare.

Holey Walls

Stupid heater inserts. They left little square holes in all the rooms. Not only do we have to patch the wall, we have to patch the floor and put in new trim.

Step one done!

Details, details

There are 75 years of homeowners “fixing” little things all over the house. The attic stairs are a jumbled mess that don’t make any sense. Cedar shakes lined a few walls. Random shelves. Lime green, orange and purple paint on a few spots. Boards ripped off. Ducting stuffed in the wall, but not connected.

Stephen thought he could install one thing, and then ended up fixing everything leading up to that. This little air vent took him a whole afternoon.

Two walls and the chimney will get drywalled this week. We will figure out what to do with the shelves and missing flooring later.

Meanwhile…upstairs

So much insulation!! I’m not even the one installing it, and its driving me crazy. $7000 of our rehab loan was specificially designated toward energy saving improvements. This is one of them.

Snug as a bug.

And, he’s still not done with insulating. Hopefully, the walls will go up faster.